Morning journal and courier., 1887-09-24
NeWS Dy lelegFdpn FROM ALL QUARTERS. CHOLERA AT NEW YORK. Brought.:-tn By A French <.. Steamer. THE STRlAGENCY IN MONEY Relieved By The Purchase
 Of Bonds. A FIERCE TORNADO IN TEXAS. Two Towns Almost Entire
 ly Wiped Out.
A FIERCE TORNADO IN TEXAS.
CHOLERA AT NEW YORK.

CHOLERA AT NEW YORK. The Disease Brought in on a French Steamer on Which There Were Many 1 Cases.
 NEW YORK, Sept 23.-The steamship Ale. sia which arrived below last night from Marseilles and Naples with six hundred pas- sengers, has Asiatic cholera aboard. Eight of her passengers died on the passage and on her arrival at quarantine the health officer found four cases on board. He has sent the l Alesia and her passengers to Westbank in the lower bay.
 1 The Alesia left Marseilles August 29. hay ing touched at Naples August 30. She had l 561 steerage passengers and three cabin pas sengers. Captain Valliel commanded the vessel which had crew of forty-seven men. The Alesia was laden with merchandise. The sick and dead, it is supposed, hailed from Sicily and embarked at Naples. They had l been dying since the 16th inst The passen- gers will be kept at quarantine for at least l eight days.
 Although tho ship surgeon reported that | there were four sick persons on board the l steamer, the health officer found ten. Three
 
 fore morning, while the others are expected 1 to recover. The eight sick persons-two women and six men-were transferred to the quarantine hospital at Swinburne Island. The balance of the passengers were landed at Hoffman Island where they were made as comfortable as possible. They will be held there until all danger of infection has passed. To morrow all baggage will be removed from the ship and thoroughly disinfected. The ship itself will be cleansed and purified, as well as such part of the cargo as may be sup posed to carry the disease germs. The cargo consists ot wines, oils. dried fruits and other Italian products. There were only three cabin passengers, and as they were utterly shut away from the sleerage they were not exposed. They will, however, be held few days. Francisco Matted and Scala Veno, two were sick at the time and the ships doctor said they had brochitis. On September 12 Matteo's case proved unmistakably to be Asiatic cholera. The first death occurred on September IS and others followed rapidly. Those who died on the voyage were: Francesca Matteo. forty-one years; Scala Veno, fifty nine years; Luigi Maria, twenty three years; Antone Ballyana, thirty eight years; Jean LeNivolin, forty years; Jean Somma, thirty years; Serrapin De Lei, rwenty-one years, and Anna Nettsi, forty seven years. The captain and crew of the ship will remain aboard. No fears are enter tained of the disease spreading to the city as the most rigid care is being taken. The vessel is of the Fabre line.
 President Bayles of the health board is not at all alarmed over the outbreak of cholera on the Alesia. It was too late in the season to worry The department is in good shape to deal with the disease. In the event of an epidemic the board would have $50, 900 at their command. The present health board was organized to meet the epidemic of 1866. The scourge had visited New York in 1S4S and 1S49 and in 1854 5. The last visitation aided in the discovery of the true nature of the disease and dread gave way to a calmer view. Nevertheless the news in November, 1865, of the arrival of cholera ship from Havre caused consternation. Strict quaran- tine work kept the disease out, but the following April brought half dozen steamships with cholera-stricken passengers. The Virginia was first with thirty-one cholera dead followed by the England with two hundred and fifty deaths out of twelve hundred passengers. The latter arrived April 20, 1866. Ten days later the first case oc- cured in New York. In that year the dis ease killed 1 ,212 persons in this city and was the last visitation.